For Internet firms, the quandary is this: The mere provision of e-mail, electronic storage, cloud-computing services, and social-networking sites could be viewed as an act that "facilitates access to" illegal content, especially if the provider knows that some users in the past have been less than law-abiding. (And the threat of arrest, indictment, and imprisonment makes them unwilling to hope prosecutors interpret the language conservatively.)
thank god i decided to hit/. to see if anyone else was getting this, i figured if it was google wide, someone here would post it. saved me lots of scanning and wondering wtf is wrong with my pc.
That's what I should have done in the first place, but I got paranoid (this is what happens when your computer gets bombed with a backdoor virus).
I was doing a search on "virtual drives" when I noticed it. After trying a couple more searches that had the same flagging, I closed the browser.
(I'm certain now this was coincidental: my taskbar icon for Norton disappeared and I thought a trojan or whatever got through and mucked up Google. It seems to not be the case. Everything is fine now, but I'm still paranoid nonetheless.)
I'm going one step further: once my finances are in order I'm going to buy a cheap gaming PC for the games I already own. I'm done getting new stuff thanks to this DRM mess.
Unless I know for certain a game is DRM-free, it's not getting on this laptop I'm using right now.
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I also disavow any responsibility. I'm too preoccupied with this chronic pain called a recession.
Dammit, we voters can sure pick 'em, can't we?
It's like with the USS Enterprise: there are a lot of letters left in the alphabet.
For Internet firms, the quandary is this: The mere provision of e-mail, electronic storage, cloud-computing services, and social-networking sites could be viewed as an act that "facilitates access to" illegal content, especially if the provider knows that some users in the past have been less than law-abiding. (And the threat of arrest, indictment, and imprisonment makes them unwilling to hope prosecutors interpret the language conservatively.)
thank god i decided to hit /. to see if anyone else was getting this, i figured if it was google wide, someone here would post it. saved me lots of scanning and wondering wtf is wrong with my pc.
That's what I should have done in the first place, but I got paranoid (this is what happens when your computer gets bombed with a backdoor virus).
I was doing a search on "virtual drives" when I noticed it. After trying a couple more searches that had the same flagging, I closed the browser.
(I'm certain now this was coincidental: my taskbar icon for Norton disappeared and I thought a trojan or whatever got through and mucked up Google. It seems to not be the case. Everything is fine now, but I'm still paranoid nonetheless.)
I'm going one step further: once my finances are in order I'm going to buy a cheap gaming PC for the games I already own. I'm done getting new stuff thanks to this DRM mess. Unless I know for certain a game is DRM-free, it's not getting on this laptop I'm using right now.